EMachines' bottom-of-the-heap machine comes with a 1.1 gigaherz Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) Celeron processor, 128 megabytes of SDRAM, a 20-gigabyte hard drive and a line of Microsoft (nyse: MSFT - news - people ) software already installed.

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We test each drive with a Micron 433-MHz Celeron system equipped with 64MB of SDRAM, a 10GB hard disk, and a DVD-ROM drive.

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Rambus claims Infineon is violating its patents on two kinds of computer memory, known as synchronous dynamic random access memory (SDRAM), and Double-Data Rate DRAM (DDR).

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But so will the addition of one megabyte of level 3 cache, as well as the Double Data Rate SDRAM memory with a 133-MHz system cache standard on all models.

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The little 14-inch Chromebook runs Google's eponymous OS with an Intel Celeron 847 CPU clocked at 1.1GHz, an Intel HD GPU, 2GB of DDR3 SDRAM (expandable up to 4GB), and 16GB of SSD storage space, put to use on the 14-inch HD BrightView LED-backlit display (1366 x 768 resolution).

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